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...should be realized that a war is going on and a still graver crisis is facing Japan. The uncertain state of the Premier's condition is depressing...
Crisis Grows Graver...
...merchant-shipping losses to the Germans, 60,000 tons a week, were up 40,000 a week since June. Gravely the question was raised as to whether help in large quantity from anywhere could reach Britain in the face of the ever-stiffening counter-blockade. And this raised the graver question of how tenable were the home islands themselves, not only the seat of empire but the forge of most of its war sinews and the one great base of its all-important...
...Japanese blessed with farsightedness saw things abroad to make them lose their heads in graver ways. They saw that Japan had been treated to the short end of the Axis, that the three-way pact had tremendous advantages for Germany and Italy, but that it merely brought Japan new wrath from the U. S. and renewed suspicion from Russia. To Winston Churchill the pact was so weighted against Japan that he wondered "whether there are not some secret clauses." Besides this lopsided pact, there were specific threats...
...special function of a university to supply the community with men who can think deeply and clearly because they are detached from the conduct of affairs and are members of a fellowship in which hard thinking and fearless statement of one's convictions are especially prized. The graver the national emergency, the greater the need for honest and courageous thinking about national problems...